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So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.


George Berkeley

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GEORGE ORWELL Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
GEORGE ORWELL Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
GEORGE ORWELL It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequentl...
GEORGE ORWELL The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
GEORGE ORWELL In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
GEORGE ORWELL I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corpora...
GEORGE ORWELL Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
GEORGE ORWELL It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one...
GEORGE ORWELL War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses t...
GEORGE ORWELL Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay egg...
GEORGE ORWELL Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defen...
GEORGE ORWELL What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments ...
GEORGE ORWELL Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of...
GEORGE ORWELL Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of al...
GEORGE ORWELL I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
GEORGE ORWELL I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
GEORGE ORWELL There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one si...
GEORGE ORWELL Big Brother is watching you.
GEORGE ORWELL But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
GEORGE ORWELL Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
GEORGE ORWELL I intend to live life, not just exist.
GEORGE TAKEI If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELL Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELL